Exploration of Enablers for Complex Product Manufacturing; Identify, Prioritize and and Determine the Intermediate Relationships of Required Capabilities in Manufacturing of Complex Product Systems (COPS)

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1 Assistant Professor at Management and industrial department, faculty of malek ashtar university of technology, Tehran, Iran.

2 Professor at Management and industrial department, faculty of malek Ashtar University of technology, Tehran, Iran.

3 MSc in Industrial Engineering, Management and Industrial Engineering Department, Malek Ashtar University of Technology,Tehran,Iran.

Abstract

Complex product systems (COPS) play an important role in industry, economics and technology of countries. On the other hand,Due to the complexity and the need for in depth and high level knowledge; organizations face challenges in Manufacturing and developing these products.To succeed in manufacturing of these products, organizations need to recognize the required capabilities.Therefore, the current research was conducted to identify the capabilities and enablers needed to manufacturing complex products And analyzes the causal relationships between these enablers.The other purpose of this study was to determine the importance of these factors for the accurate planning in the organization.For this purpose, with using the library studies and semi-structured interviews, the mentioned capabilities were identified and then validated by distributing the questionnaire. Eventually, 10 main factors and 46 sub-factors were identified. In the next step, with using Interpretative Structural Modeling (ISM) method , the relationships between these factors were determined and partitioned into four levels.Then ANP was used to determine the weights and ranking of factors.The research results show that networking capabilities, projects management, system integration and interactions at macro levels are the most important factors in manufacturing complex products and have underlying impacts on other factors. at the end of paper, after concluding the content, some suggestions were proposed for future research.

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  • Receive Date: 26 January 2019
  • Revise Date: 01 April 2019
  • Accept Date: 06 April 2019

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